The Business

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July 02, 2007 The Almost Guy
He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the rest of his
experience in Hollywood, "the almost guy" is a label he's fighting to
avoid.

31 min
June 25, 2007 Cooing over a Deal with Dove; What's a First AD?
Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women.
Plus, what's a first assistant director?
31 min
June 18, 2007 Hollywood Spin-Doctor Makes a House Call; The Loneliest Republican
Hollywood's spin-doctor on the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal. Plus, Hollywood fundraising for a Republican presidential candidate.
30 min
June 11, 2007 Making the Great White Way Pay
We look at the wonderful world of the great white way through the lens of a new documentary called Show Business: The Road to Broadway.
30 min
June 04, 2007 You're Fired!; Show Biz Picks a President
After NBC fired its president, we ask another
former programming chief about the upside of getting canned. Plus, would-be presidents come to Hollywood in search of
dead presidents.
30 min
May 28, 2007 Rating the Changes at the MPAA
This week on The Business, will changes to the way movies are rated change what you see on the big screen? We'll talk to the head of the MPAA's rating board about what's new and why. And, what can different ratings mean for a movie's box office potential? Plus, a report from the Cannes Film Festival.

30 min
May 21, 2007 Scaring Audiences-All the Way to the Bank
Horror films are once again scaring up terrifying box office numbers! We check in with the director of the wildly successful Hostel movies, then cut to the producer of the Saw movies.
31 min
May 14, 2007 White Writer, Black Show; Writers Guild (Lack of) Diversity Report
An unusually candid conversation about race and writing for movies and television. Then, the new Writers Guild report on how white the writer's room remains.

31 min
April 30, 2007 The Most Expensive Movie Ever Made?; Pitch vs Spec
Is Spider-Man 3 the most expensive movie ever
made? And why should we care? Plus, life's a pitch, and then
you write...
31 min
April 23, 2007 Canned Laughs, Fresh Ideas
Is that laughter coming from your television fresh or canned? We talk to Chuck Lorre, creator of some of the most popular sitcoms in TV history. Plus, USC students practice the art of the pitch--and we ain't talking about baseball.
31 min

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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.